Airmen from Air Force Special Operations Command’s 17th Special Operations Squadron who returned recently from a Southwest Asia rotation took time to visit six classes of first, second, and third graders on the Japanese island of Okinawa. The airmen, who are based at Kadena AB, Japan, wanted to thank the students for writing and sending cards to them during their first deployment to SWA. (Read more here.)
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
